Friday, May 19, 2006

AAAS: Taking Over

With KG (AAAS webmaster) leaving I've been asked to take over some duties for her temporarily, mostly just posting a news item here or there. The process isn't too tedious and shouldn't take up too much of my time once I've done it a few time.

One interesting aspect of the job will be to update the RSS feed. I've not played with RSS much beyond using them through My Yahoo!. There are a number of feed editors out there but I found two that are a) free and b) easy to use. Of course, the output they generate differs in one significant way, the content is entity-encoded in RSS-W but surrounded by a CDATA delimeter in RSS-B. Both appear to be valid methods of creating an RSS 2.0 document. I like RSS-B better but it does not use the same formatting used up until now. After talking to KG, though, I think I'll use it as she seemed to think using CDATA was more SGML-y, meaning it was likely more XML-y.

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